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| Written by Aaron Greenblatt | |||||
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Bad News Principal Douglas Guthrie of Apopka Memorial Middle School of Apopka, Florida, took an unlikely approach to the ultimate Holocaust question: How do you turn a number like 12 million – the total number of murders in Nazi labor and death camps – into something young students can understand? Apopka Local 6 News reported that upon entering school on March 29th, eighth graders with last names starting with L through Z were unexpectedly given yellow, five-pointed stars and subjected to “persecution,” which entailed forbidding them from drinking at specific water fountains and forcing them multiple times to the back of the lunch line. This controversial Holocaust Remembrance Day plan has sparked a local and, subsequently, a national uproar. It came as no surprise to many that the experiment backfired, putting students in vulnerable emotional positions, and smearing the school’s educational objectives. Recapping what his son learned, Apopka father John Tinnelly said, “I tried to talk to my son, and I asked all of these questions and the only thing he said is, ‘Daddy, the only thing I found out today is I don’t want to be Jewish.’”
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